Ash-handling apparatus.



W. H. SMALLEY & E. HATTON. ASH HANDLING APPARATUS. APPLIOATION II- LBD3111.28, 1909.

Patented Sept. '7; 1909.

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933,129; Patented Sept. 7, 1909-.

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' ceptacles may be located may be dropped from the buckets orreceptacles UNITED STATIESGRATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. SMALLEY AND EDGAR HATTON, OF HAVANA, ILLINOIS.

ASH-HANDLIN G APPARATUS.

933,129. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept; 7, 1909. Application filed January as, 1909. Serial no.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that we, WI LIAM H. SMAL- Lnr and EDGAR HA'r'rox, citizensof the United States, residing at Havana, in the county of Mason andState of Illinois, have inven cd or discovered certain new and usefulImprovements in Ash-HandlingAp'pm r atus, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.1 Railroad round houses, or the approaches thereto, are generallyprovided between the tracks with pits into which ashes and cinders andsometimes the fires of the engines are dumped, and the accumulated ashesfrom these pits are usually subsequently shoveled into ash carsljforremoval. This requires considerable labor, and in handling the ashes andcinders they are sometimes spilled about so as to present an untid Thepresent invention has for its object cage in the ash pit. Fig. 3 is adetail view illustrative of the top portion of the swing ing crane. a.

Referring to the drawings; 12denotes an ash pit in which will be locatedsuitably suption beneath theengines. Adjacent, to the tracks is locateda crane preferably coin rising a base or foot-block 16 of concrete 8which may be set into the ground if desired) and to which preferablybolted a metal cap-plate 17 fitted forl the reception of the lower endof an up.- ri 1t mit iron pipe of suitable size and length to constitutethe standard of a crane. The swinging. portion or boom of.

to provide convenient means for handhn ly consists of metal arms 19 broht to-" the ashes and cinder's from ash pits of the gther at their outerends and attac ed at kind aboye referred to without requnin their innerends by bolts 20 to a metal'block the ashes and cinders to be shoveledout b 21 fittill the C cu r S a da hand. [o the end the ash pits betweenthe outer en 8 of the" arms 19 are 'supportedb tracks are pionded withrails tor the su inclined braces '22 the lower ends of whic port ofrecepta les for the ashes and cinders are attached by bolts 23 to ametal b ock M,

and I similar to the block 21, and through which block latv the circularstandard 18 passes. Theblock 24 is held 11 .by a collar 25 attached tothe' standar 18 by suitable set screw or set screws; and is similarlyheld up onsaid standard by a collar 26 either located directly beneathand in contact with said with an interposed lar 27.

cars or buckets oosely fitting in cages, and the latter are providedwith wheels running on the tracks; so that the ash buckets or rein anydesired positions beneath the engines to receive the ashes and cindcrsfrom the latter and which the engines directly into the said ash-bucketsor receptacles. For cooperation with the buckets or receptacles there isprovided a convenient hoisting dey loosely 1n the cage 15 and is formedof a sheet metal body angle-iron corner bars and central straps 29. Atthe said bucket and supported by said stra s 29 is a cross rod 30 onwhich are'hinged oors 31 forming thebottom of the bucket, saidpreferably cages in the ash pits et t0 and swung around over the ashcars on tracks conveniently near,- and into which ash cars the cindersand ashes in the buckets or receptacles may be dumped. To this end arepreferably provided at their bottoms with swinging dumping doors whichare held in place by spring catches which latter mayfibe released toper-" mit the dum ing doorsor bottoms of the buckets to fa l downward todump the conbraced by hingestraps 32-yvhich run the full widths of thesaid doors. The bucket preferably considerably nar I bottom than at itsto and this construction enables the doors to be made narrower, and

tents of the buckets into the ash cars.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of an apparatusconstructed the present invention, the operation thereof.

would be. The h1nge-straps are provided attheir outer ends with catches33 adapted ,to coiiperate with: spring latches or catches in accordancewith and illustrative of end View of the bucket-receiving the upperblock 21 The bucket 28 is of suitable size to fit provided with bottomof thebe located in any desired posibase or foot-block is 18 which willpreferably consist of a the crane prefblock, 21, or in contact swinging'block -or 001- doors being also preferably of'sheet metal i 105. .owetat its Set attached to the gides of the bucket or receptacle, and whichspring latches or catches 34 may be released, when the contents of thebucket are to be dumped, by a bar or other suitable device in the handsof the attendant.

Thebucket or receptacle 28 is preferably provided at its ends withsuitable hooks for engagement with ropes or chains -36 for connectionwith a suitable hoisting device. Said hoisting device preferablyconsists of a hook 07 supported at the end of a chain 38 runi'iing overthe. pulleys 39, said pulleys being attached to a shaft 40 the outer endof which is journaled in a yoke l-l sup ported from the outer end of thecrane arms 19 and the inner end of which shaft is journaled in the block27 formed as a collar surrounding the standard 18, and which may. ifdesired, be an integral part of the block '21. Near the inner end of theshaft d0 a pulley 42 over which runs a hoisting chain 43 by which thehoisting device may be operated in a well-known manner by an attendantor workman. W hen the hoisting device is operated to lift the filledbucket or receptacle 28 to a desired elevation the. swinging portion orboom of the crane may be swung around to carry the bucket over an ashcar on a suitably located track; and when this has been done thecontents of the bucket may be dumped into said ash car merely bydisengaging the latcln'as or catches 34: from the catches 33, therebypermitting the doors 32 to swing downward to release the contents of thebucket. To prevent ashes or cinders from falling into the pit 12,outside of the bucket or receptacle, the edges of the pit are preferablyprovided with guards 44 of sheet metal or other suitable material whichwill overhang the space between the bucket or receptacle and the sidewalls of the pit.

From the foregoing it will be understood that when the bucket orreceptacle 28 has been lowered into the cage 15 and disengaged from thelifting hook 237 the said cage, with the bucket or receptacle therein,may be moved on the tracks 13 toany desired location beneath an engine,and ashes and cinders may then be dumpedfrom the engine directly intothe bucket or receptacle. When the latter becomes filled it may be runto a suitable position adjacent to the crane. and being engaged by thehoisting apparatus above described it may be lifted to any desiredheight and then swung around over the ash car t'or dun'iping, the blocks2t and. Qt, forming parts of the swinging portions of the crane, turningon the circular standard 18 in swinging the bucket. horizontally fromone position to another. The crane will, in practice, preterably besteadied by guy ropes, as is common with cranes and derricks.

Having thus described our invention we claim and desire to secure byLetters latent:

1. An ash handling apparatus eom n'ising rails, forming a tramway, in anash pit, a :age furnished with wheels fitted to run on said rails, adumping bucket adapted to be loosely received by said cage, and meansfor raising and lowering said bucket and for swinging it from over saidpit to a dumping position aside from the pit.

2. An ash handling apparatus comprising an aslrpit provided near its topwith rails, a cage provided near its top with wheels titted to run onsaid rails, a (lumping bucket adapted, to be loosely received by saidcage, and means for raising and lowering said bucket and for swinging itfrom over said pit to a dumping position aside from the pit.

in testimmiy whereof we tlllX our signatures, in presence of twowitnessou.

\VlLLlAM l-I. SMALLIGY. EDGAR HATTON. Witnesses tlnnunn :IIIARDIIISQN,tinonon \Vumis Smear.

